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Barely 48 hours after six people died and dozens were hurt in a horrific accident you unleashed your misspelled bile on Facebook.

The rest of us hugged our kids tight and gave silent thanks that our daily commute to and from work ended with us home for dinner.

Not you.

“The Ottawa Train vs Bus Crash was Hillarious (sic),” was the name of the page posted.

In my imagination sniggering buddies did it from a hidey hole in some parents’ basement, illuminated only by the light of a computer screen wearing stained T-shirts dusted with potato chip crumbs.

“Nothing of value was lost,” was beneath photos of the six victims — a mother, a father, a husband, three sons.

“These are the faces of sinners. The world is now rid of scum.”

“Choo, choo,” was posted merrily, near a photo of a flaming train.

A woman stumbled upon it as she looked for a way to send her condolences to the grieving families of the dead.

“It’s awful, it’s disgusting,” she told me. “I wanted to send good wishes and prayers and thoughts. I was horrified.”

“This is SO sick, may God have mercy on your soul,” she posted in response. “You are a crazy idiot.”

Gregory Mech, who was on the upper deck of bus 76, was horrified when told about the site.

“We have to have sympathy for everyone who passed away or were severely injured and everyone who is going through grief,” said the 54-year-old who was heading to his job in information technology when the bus crashed.

“If it’s not a hate crime, it’s certainly extremely immoral,” he said, adding there is simply something wrong with anyone who would do that and they need psychological help.

Facebook’s response was heartening.

Within 30 minutes of the Sun contacting the social media site, it had removed the page and deleted the administrators’ accounts.

“We know who set up the page and we’ve blocked them from Facebook,” a spokeswoman said.

That was the right response, said Dr. Rena Bivens, a sociologist who researches and teaches about social media at Carleton University.

She noted there’s usually a continuum between the online and offline world —cyberbullying is an extension of real-world bullying, for example — but no one would go to a funeral to hurl insults at mourners.

“This I think is something that is kind of new and different,” she said.

What other social media scholars have dubbed RIP trolling, more typically takes the form of posting cruel insults on social media memorials to the dead.

We’ll never know for sure but Bivens gives the example of three, four or five people — maybe teens — sitting around a computer egging each other on.

Hearing reactions of shock and outrage might “make them think about their actions in this wider context and what it means to do something online,” she said.

“People are not always aware of the reach that things that they post online can have,” she said. “This may have been a joke between a couple of friends. They may never have been able to conceive that it could have gone this far, that people related to the incident could have seen it, that you could have seen it.

“They might have just thought that it was fun and games that evening.”

We’ll never know who you are. Maybe you’re beyond compassion or even shame.

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